Badlands News Brief
The Media Spin Cycle Continues ... As We Defect
The News Cycle is almost impossible to track these days. At least, to do so fully.
That’s where we come in.
In the Badlands News Brief, the Badlands Media team hand picks news items of interest from the previous days to give you an overview of the biggest goings-on relevant to the Truth Community.
Items feature original commentary from members of our growing team of citizen journalists, whose stated opinions are their own. Feel free to follow the corresponding link to see their other work.
Now, onto the news from the Weekend that Was …
After Delay, Hamas To Release 13 Israelis & 7 Foreigners
The deal for a second round prisoner swap is back on, apparently. Hamas is expected to release 13 Israelis and 7 foreigners at some point tonight. According to an updated briefing from the IDF:
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says there is “significant progress” in the efforts to release the hostages from the Gaza Strip tonight, following delays by Hamas.
“The effort to return the hostages is our moral and ethical duty. We are determined to fulfill this in any way,” Hagari says in an evening press conference. “The effort tonight is progressing and we will inform the families and the public when things happen. Patience is required.”
“There is significant progress,” he adds.
Hagari says “nothing is final until it actually happens,” as Israel is indirectly negotiating with an “evil terror group.”
Israel earlier said it may resume bombing the Gaza Strip if Hamas doesn't come through on its end of the deal. Hamas for its part claimed it was Israel failing to meet certain agreed-upon details of the swap. 39 Palestinians are expected to be released.
As for getting Americans who are among the captives freed, so far President Biden and his White House team have failed to deliver. Will there be US citizens among the foreign captives released? — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “The story beneath the story of hostage exchanges over the course of the weekend was, in my opinion, the fact that a bipartisan audience gets to see how peace totally seems to be an option as long as both sides just stop killing each other for a predetermined amount of time.
Of course, that’s reductive, and isn’t meant to be callous, but Crisis Fatigue is setting in within the Collective Mind, and I don’t think the Media Industrial Complex or its Deep State controllers are happy about that.
The Hegelian Dialectic posits that they don’t just need war and strife to advance their agendas, but reactions TO that strife, and in this period of heightened escalation and acceleration, and on the back of the Ukraine Crisis that has run its mass psychological course and all the others that preceded it and followed it, the Fear Engine is running on fumes.” —
Ex-officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in George Floyd’s killing, was stabbed in prison, AP source says
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, was stabbed by another inmate and seriously injured Friday at a federal prison in Arizona, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
The attack happened at the Federal Correctional Institution, Tucson, a medium-security prison that has been plagued by security lapses and staffing shortages. The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack and spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity.
The Bureau of Prisons confirmed that an incarcerated person was assaulted at FCI Tucson at around 12:30 p.m. local time Friday. In a statement, the agency said responding employees contained the incident and performed “life-saving measures” before the inmate, who it did not name, was taken to a hospital for further treatment and evaluation. — AP News
Our Take: “This story makes me sick. Not because of the stabbing, although that’s terrible — I hope he’s alright. The story makes me sick because of how easily it resets the tribalism plaguing the collective mind.
Immediately upon hearing the news, one of my friend groups began ripping each other apart over whether Chauvin had it coming.
‘He’s a piece of sh*t, and he’s exactly where he supposed to be!’ and ‘He’s an effing murderer! He got what’s coming to him.’ On the other side was, ‘Chauvin is an innocent man who was sacrificed to appease the mob!’ and all variations within that plot line.
It feels like October 7 all over again. The central narrative is ramping up the tribal rhetoric and, again, demanding that you choose a side. The energy among the people is such that any disagreement is viewed as a threat on one’s life. Empathy has been weaponized to the point of insanity, and emotions are ruling the collective mind. Again.
They have the outrage exactly where they want it. Just say no.” —
Newsom vs DeSantis Debate Nov 30 Promises Fireworks
Basically, each candidate isn’t really debating the other, but auditioning for the nomination in his own party. Any slights or barbs aimed at the other really are aimed to impress voters in the taunter’s own party, not win votes among the general electorate. Mr. DeSantis especially is aiming at those in the first crucial states, Iowa with its caucuses on Jan. 15 and New Hampshire with its Jan. 23 primary.
Mr. Newsom, by contrast, has to assume Mr. Biden at least will sail through the first primaries and, after Super Tuesday March 5, garner enough delegates to nab the nomination. Newsom therefore effectively is auditioning before the Democratic National Committee, which would pick a potential Biden replacement. In particular, Mr. Newsom has to show he’s far better than his obvious challenger, Vice President Kamala Harris, who generally is not looked on favorably for her verbal gaffes and apparent lack of leadership skills. — The Epoch Times
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Hillary Clinton Among Top Picks To Run in 2024 If Joe Biden Doesn't: Poll
A recent poll shows that failed 2016 Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is among the Democrats' top picks for the party's primary if 81-year-old President Joe Biden decides not to run in 2024 due to age or other factors, such as fitness for office.
Most of the 2,000-plus respondents to the Harvard-Harris poll said that they have doubts about President Biden's mental fitness to serve as commander-in-chief, while more voters said he is worsening as president rather than improving.
Around three in five of all likely voters said President Biden shouldn't run for a second term, though there were sharp partisan differences, with 33 percent of Democrats compared to 81 percent of Republicans and 66 percent of Independents expressing that view.
At the same time, strong majorities across the political spectrum agreed that the country needs "another choice" other than a matchup between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. — The Epoch Times
Our Take: “Acceleration is the death of the Finite Player.
Over the course of the last few days, the following deployments have been seeded within the Collective Mind as it attempts to hibernate from the mass psychological terrors of the ongoing Info War with friends, family and festivities:
Hillary Clinton is listed among the 'top picks' to run on the Dem ticket in 2024 if Biden & Harris are 'not available,' according to a Harvard-Harris poll, which landed with a dud among liberals and unintentional comedy among MAGA & Anons.
Ron DeSantis will debate Gavin Newsom in a battle to determine who wears the skin of false reality projection more unconvincingly within their respective dying political parties, further damaging both in the process.
Before reacting to these deployments on an emotional basis, recognize that the Party of False Decorum (h/t
) and the Uniparty (ie: the Deep State,) are revealing themselves to the American people with startling regularity.Let them.” —
China grapples with respiratory illness spike, WHO says no unusual pathogen found
China called for vigilance on Friday as a surge of respiratory illness hit schools and hospitals and the World Health Organization, which has asked the government for disease data, said no unusual or novel pathogens had been detected.
China is grappling with a spike in respiratory illnesses as it enters its first full winter season since it lifted strict COVID-19 restrictions in December, with cases among children appearing especially high in northern areas like Beijing and Liaoning province where hospitals are warning of long waits.
The State Council said influenza would peak this winter and spring and mycoplasma pneumoniae infection would continue to be high in some areas in future. It also warned of the risk of a rebound in COVID infections.
"All localities should strengthen information reporting on infectious diseases to ensure information is reported in a timely and accurate manner," the State Council said in a statement.
The situation came into the spotlight this week when the WHO asked China for more information, citing a report by the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) on clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children.
Both China and the WHO have faced questions about the transparency of reporting on the earliest COVID-19 cases that emerged in the central city of Wuhan in late 2019. — Reuters
Our Take: “If you diagnose pneumonia as ‘undiagnosed pneumonia,’ aren’t you diagnosing the patient with pneumonia? Whoever is writing ‘the science’ these days needs a code update.
The latest fake illness to grip China comes almost four years to the day of the first diagnosed case of Covid-19 in Wuhan in 2019. It was November 19, and it was exactly one month after the ‘table top’ exercise where ‘the science’ — which was a who’s who of global corporate communists — simulated a coronavirus pandemic in October 2019.
This is both a rerun and a remake, but calling your diagnosis ‘undiagnosed’ erodes believability from the outset. The election variant is bacterial this time so, unfortunately, we aren’t getting the mushroom zombie arc from the ‘Last of Us.’ But it will be fun to see ‘the science’ demand billions in taxpayer funding for their fall 2024 lines of mRNA antibiotics or whatever snake oil is currently working its way through the FDA.” —
"Guess We're Not Dead Yet": New Traffic Data Shows Musk's X Surpasses Instagram And Facebook
Dying corporate media outlets have been waging an all-out assault on social media platform X because they perceive it as an existential threat to their ideological narrative control and the interest of their overlords due to its emphasis on 'free speech.'
When the failed social media network, "Treads," was launched by Meta in early July, we were the first to point out how corporate media banded together with headlines such as "Twitter Killer" and prophesized the demise of Elon Musk's social media platform.
According to Bloomberg data, "Twitter Killer" appearing in headlines erupted across corporate media - a concerted effort by the status quo against Musk.
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And if you were only to read corporate media headlines, one would think X was on its last leg. Breaking out of the matrix of corporate media mind control, one comes to find out that the latest web data from Google shows quite the opposite:
The reports of X on death row have been nothing more than disinformation pushed by legacy media because Musk's platform of free speech is an existential threat to CBS, ABC, NBC, and the list goes on and on. — ZeroHedge
Our Take: “You don't have to like or use 'X' to recognize its significance.
The fact of the matter is, 'X' is now in a more powerful info dissemination position than it was as Twitter, despite breathless and steady Media deployments to the contrary since Musk's takeover.
And that's the word I want to focus in on.
Whether or not you believe Musk has always been a 'white hat' or not, it is unavoidable that he now controls the most powerful info dissemination (and therefore,) Narrative Projection platform in a sociopolitical landscape where that is the key to winning World War 3, which is largely taking place within the realm of the Collective Mind.
Either Musk's takeover is the most serendipitous bit of good fortune to hit the online battlefield ahead of 2024, or there is much more than meets the eye, here.
Some (myself included,) believe Musk is a de facto custodian of 'X' on behalf of the US MIL and Sovereign Alliance.
Either way, [they] lost their biggest weapon, which means we gained it.” —
BONUS ITEMS
Parnell Square stabbing: Girl (5) remains in critical condition today as school releases statement on injured victims
A Brazilian Deliveroo driver has been hailed a true hero for stopping the knife attacker during an incident on Parnell Square, Dublin yesterday that has left a young girl in a critical condition.
One child aged five is still in a critical condition in hospital today.
Two other young children and the female creche worker, aged in her 30s, were also being treated for injuries after the knife attack on Parnell Square East in Dublin.
Gardaí have ruled out a terror related motive, and are holding a man aged in his 40s who was also injured during the incident. He also remains in hospital.
The heroic creche worker is being treated for serious stab injuries to her body that she suffered when she tackled the knifeman on Thursday afternoon. — Independent.ie
Where Europe's 'Far-Right' Has Gained Ground
The media is so anti-common sense that anyone who dares to take any contrary view is called "far-right" as if they are Nazis.
As Armstrong Economics' Martin Armstrong points out, anyone who wants to return just to normal life is now disgustingly far-right.
You have to support World War III, high taxes, lifestyle sacrifice for climate change, and if you do not tell your son in 1st grade that maybe he is really a girl then you are guilty of child abuse, and your children should be taken from you by force.
On Wednesday, the media-labeled 'far-right' populist PVV (Freedom Party), led by Geert Wilders, came out on top in the Dutch parliamentary elections.
The party, which has promised to ban mosques and is calling for a far more restrictive immigration policy, is expected to win between 35 and 37 of the 150 seats in the Dutch House of Representatives; it previously held just 16.
The following map, via Statista's Martin Armstrong provides an overview of the strength of a selection of parties on the so-called 'far right' of Europe's political spectrum. — ZeroHegde
Pro-Israel teacher hides in Queens high school as ‘radicalized’ students riot: ‘They want her fired’
Hundreds of “radicalized” kids rampaged through the halls of a Queens high school this week for nearly two hours after they discovered a teacher had attended a pro-Israel rally — forcing the terrified educator to hide in a locked office as the teen mob tried to push its way into her classroom, The Post has learned.
The mayhem at Hillcrest High School in Jamaica unfolded shortly after 11 a.m. Monday in what students called a pre-planned protest over the teacher’s Facebook profile photo showing her at a pro-Israel rally on Queens Oct. 9 holding a poster saying, “I stand with Israel.”
“The teacher was seen holding a sign of Israel, like supporting it,” a senior told The Post this week.
“A bunch of kids decided to make a group chat, expose her, talk about it, and then talk about starting a riot.”
Hundreds of kids flooded into hallways and ran amok, chanting, jumping, shouting, and waving Palestinian flags or banners. — NY Post
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Stories like what has happened to Derek Chauvin always make me think about the subjects of Prison Justice and democracy. Derek Chauvin is in prison due to the democratizing of our legal system (or is that mobocratizing? You may choose). But now you have a cop who was doing his job in prison for life - where he was just stabbed by . . . someone. Care to guess the race of that individual? I read through about 5 different stories and that little piece of the story has been left out.
Let's consider what else may have happened to Mr. Chauvin in prison (in Arizona I might add (didn't this all start in Minnesota?). On the one hand it could be solitary confinement for 23 hours a day. On the other it could be in the general population where he could be subject to beatings and prison rape. The chances that his life sentence punishment just involves time in prison eating 3 square meals a day is pretty slim.
The Court of public opinion (fueled by months of riots and one-sided media coverage) found him guilty. Was there any chance that a jury would have found otherwise?
All of which makes me CRINGE every time the mainstream leftists go on about OUR DEMOCRACY. Do any of them have a clue as to what a "democracy" has too offer? Or do they forget what happens to them when they fall below 50%?
Re: Chauvin, I think the question to be asked is not the "side", it is the failure of the government in running the facility. What is it with these people who can't seem to provide adequate protection to those inmates who seem to be "inconvenient"?
If there is one story that I think the entire population does not buy, it's the Epstein 'suicide'. How often does this happen?.